Additional bedroom for non resident overnight carers
You may be entitled to more Housing Benefit from April
2011
- Do you or your partner have a carer who stays overnight in your
home?
- Do you rent your home from a private landlord?
- Is the overnight care provided by a carer who doesn’t live in
your home?
- Do you have a room that your carer uses to sleep in
overnight?
If the answer to all these questions is yes, then from April
2011 the help you get with your rent may take account of
this.
From April 2011, a bedroom that is used by a carer (or team of
carers) who provide overnight care for you, who doesn’t actually
live in your home may be taken into account when working out
how much Housing Benefit to pay, if the room is used for the sole
purpose of an overnight carer
In some cases, this could result in an increase in Housing
Benefit, but there will also be other changes to the Housing
Benefit rules that came in at the same time that may
affect any extra that could have been paid. This means that all of
your circumstances will need to be considered to take account of
all the new rules that came into effect in April 2011 to
decide whether you can get more money.
Even if your Housing Benefit doesn’t increase as a result, it is
still in your interest to tell the Housing Benefit Department if
you or your partner has this type of care arrangement.
This webpage was updated on
12/21/2011